To argue about pronunciation of garage

[Jugglingjemima]

I say garridge. Dp gets annoyed with this. He says garaje. I think that is French. I have asked him about what people enter into following a wedding. A marraje? I have asked him how the Queen travels on state occasions? In a carraje? Please clear this up before he gets into a raje, and I get into a ridge. (I have never had a garaje, nor a garridge, but sometimes I have had to take a car to a garridge)
(Don't say it doesn't matter; I have been practically housebound for the last two weeks)

[PeopleCallMeTricky]

Garridge.

[MrsSippy]

yeah, garridge

[stupefy]

Garridge of course!

[squeakytoy]

carriage, marriage.... erm its not gariage

I am northern and I say garridge... I live down south and it is a mixture here, but I would say most say garridge and just the posher ones say gararge..

[iklboo]

Garridge. 'nuther Northerner though.

[CurlyBoy]

"Garaje" is also how Americans pronounce it. After living 9 years in Yorkshire I now say it the right proper way!

[sparkle12mar08]

It's gararge where I live now, but garridge where I grew up. It's just an accent, nothing to argue over.

[Mabelface]

You're both right, as the pronunciation is regional.

[squeakytoy]

just out of interest... where do you get your petrol from.. because I go to the garage/garridge to get mine, and we always called it that.. but most people say petrol station.... yet my husband, (born and bred suvverner) says petrol garage... just to confuse it further!

[Jugglingjemima]

carridge, marridge, homidge (unless in the sense that Princess Beatrice's hat may have been an 'omaje' to Isabella Blow).

[Jugglingjemima]

(we run on liquid petroleum gas; half the price of petrol. Do not confuse the issue)

[squeakytoy]

homage is definately homaRge... I would say..

[YouDoTheMath]

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[RalphGnu]

It is garridge. If I heard someone say garaje I would probably have a little chuckle to myself. It all starts off innocently with garridge/garaje but could escalate into a tomayto/potahto situation and the whole thing might get called off.

Run! Run I tell you!

[EauRouge]

DH is Canadian and says 'grAHje' almost like it is a one syllable word.
DM says 'GARahj'.
I am confused and either say 'GARridge', 'GARahje' or 'that building where we store all the crap that won't fit in the house'. 2.9 yo DD1 doesn't know how to pronounce it either but is sure that it belongs to daddy and tells me off if I go in there

[TidyDancer]

It's definitely garaje. Garridge is horrible! The only people I ever hear pronouncing it garridge are the ones who will drop their t's, etc. It's generally a mark of poor language quality.

[Jugglingjemima]

(Canadians don't count in this one; I allow them their own (possibly authentically French-influenced, pronunciation)

[Jugglingjemima]

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[RalphGnu]

Oi tidydancer, I don' drop mi tee's. It's a northern thing. What's oop wi thee?

[PeopleCallMeTricky]

TidyDancer, poor language quality, you mean like using unnecessary apostrophes?

[MrsKravitz]

I say gar aaaarj

[Yama]

An ex of mine was from a posh family (Scottish, yes they do exist) and his father pronounced it garaje. Ex was quite miffed when I took the piss.

[TidyDancer]

No, quite clearly I mean the spoken word, Tricky.

Yawn.

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Jilly Cooper, in her book "Class" says that posh people pronounce it "garridge." It is the nouveau riche who pronounce it "gararj". So there.

(Should that be "nouveaux riches"?)

[thanksamillion]

It's garridge. But now I live somewhere where it is garaje and so my DCs say that even when they're speaking English. They'll need re-educating before we go back to the UK